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Enough Is Enough

By James Barrowman “It’s the wrong thing to be doing,” I told the Director of Engineering, trying to head off a last-minute change in our X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) project.

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One Way or Another

By Christian Zazzali I build a project a hundred times in my head before we start work on it. I put formal plans into writing, but I also try to work through every scenario I can think of in advance to have everything lined up like dominoes, with all the details in place.

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Letting Go of “Once and for All”

By Dr. Alexander Laufer Research is about discovery. Sometimes, if we let it, research can shake our core beliefs.

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From the APPEL Director: Playing with Prototypes

By Ed Hoffman On a recent trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), I brought home some toys for my children.

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Learning about ASK

By Todd Post The ASK Magazine prototype appeared in January 2001, and was released to a small group of readers, less than a hundred of some of the most reflective project managers we knew at the time.

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ASK Talks with Dr. Charles Pellerin

Starting out as a bench engineer and later serving for a decade as Director of Astrophysics, Dr. Charles (Charlie) Pellerin’s NASA career spanned nearly 30 years.

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The Storyboard’s Big Picture

By Cheryl A. Malloy & William Cooley At Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Cape Canaveral Office, we’re using a project management tool that facilitates team communication, keeps our project team focused, streamlines work and identifies potential issues.

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Prototyping “Rope-a-Dopes” and Other Pitfalls

By Terry Little My experience, both first- and second-hand, has been that people have misused prototyping almost as often as they have used it wisely.

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An Old Dog and New Tricks

By W. Scott Cameron As I approach my 55th birthday, the “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” keeps coming to mind.

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